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    Pawnee Bill

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    On November 14, my husband and I drove out to Pawnee to visit the Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum. This site is considered to be a significant site because it includes Pawnee Bill’s ranch, his house, the site of his Wild West shows, and a museum over his life and career. If I was an Oklahoma History teacher in secondary school I would use this site as a field trip while talking about Pawnee Bill and his career. It would also be a good site to use while covering ranches, and how they worked. It would enhance the class by giving them a visual and fun way to learn about Pawnee Bill. The exhibits in the museum were both informative and attractive. I had so much fun walking through the museum and learning about not only Pawnee Bill, but also Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, the Wild West shows, how ranches operated, the tools that were used by the people that lived and worked there. There was a small version of what the Wild West show would have looked like during one of their busiest times, and it really put into perspective what the ranch would have looked like at the time, filled with tents, wagons, and horses. There was also a hallway covered with canvas to make it feel…

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    similar to a sidekick is probably Old Lodge Skins, but he’s more of a fatherly mentor than anything else, which does divert from the Western genre as the hero is usually seen as a loner and an Indians is supposed to be bad. The settlers are not shown necessarily has evil per say, but definitely as chaotic, in some cases crazy, and in most cases conflicted and confused. They’re all struggling with something, whether it be lust, anger, guilt, stealing, etcetera. The Indians, 98 percent being…

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    Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma The Pawnee were one of the first Native American tribes to settle in the Great Plains area. Around 1200 C.E., the Pawnee migrated from Texas and Mexico to find a new home elsewhere. They traveled for years settling in Oklahoma, Kansas, and parts of Nebraska around 1750 C.E. (“Pawnee Tribe History, Facts, and Culture”). Around the 1540s, Spanish explorer, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, reported that the Pawnee tribe had “large and organized farming and hunting villages,…

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    you think Pawnee Females have to be to get married? Most of the Pawnee people are found in Nebraska and Kansas. We are going to be talking about the Pawnee location , tradition, and facts of life. The Pawnee People were mostly located in Nebraska And Kansas, they lived in houses called Earthern houses. These are hut type houses they made out of large logs and covered but dried grass or other type of bushes. The Pawnee people were moved from there reservation in Oklahoma to Nebraska and…

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    Kansas Pawnee Tribe

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    Living in Kansas is unique because we had the Pawnee tribe to help limit the amount of wild bison we had and so we could learn about their culture. The Pawnee Nation The Pawnees lived on a reservation, which is land that belongs to them and is under their control. They have their own government, laws, police, and services. Language They mostly speak English, but most Pawnees, mostly elders speak Pawnee. Pawnee means “Nawah” which is a friendly greeting. (Lewis, 2015) Culture (Society, 2009)…

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    The Downfall of Emotion The Speech of the Pawnee Chief is not only a speech of great importance but also a speech of great power. The Pawnee Chief, Petalsharro, was invited to visit with President Monroe on behalf of trying to make an attempt to negotiate peace between the tribes and America. Petalsharro was invited because of his actions that eventually earned him the title of “the bravest of the brave.” When he received a medal for his actions he responded with, “I did it in ignorance. I did…

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    Did you know that Pawnee are known. for their beautiful hide paintings, pottery and woven baskets. And Pawnee was known for other stuff like there location. facts and traditions. They are a native American tribe. This is about Pawnees location. They had to hunt mostly Buffalo because that was the common food source for there area. The Pawnee could be found along the Platte river and the Republican river which is known as Nebraska. The Pawnee were forced to move to Oklahoma in 1800 and…

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    The Journey A Pawnee Journey Laure Mbonimpa Long, long ago in the plains there lived a village. A village of the Pawnee. In the Pawnee culture, a village like that was called a band. A celebration was going on called the Powwow. It was loud and cheerful. You could hear music and voices. You could see people in colorful clothes. Here goes the story… “WHOOO HOOOO!” cried a boy named Pawn who was in that band. The Pawnee tribe and people were a fierce, wonderful, and brave group. Pawn went…

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    I then asked the David Von Aken (Director), Jeremy Gold (Endermol USA) and Tony and Joe Gayton how they decided on me to be Pawnee Killer. They all said every other actor that auditioned for Pawnee Killer literally screamed their lines because Pawnee Killer was an INTENSE character, both in real life and on screen. They said, “ We could see that there was something simmering just below the surface with you and that the intensity was there and you didn’t have to project through your voice.” My…

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    During this crisis in the mid nineteenth century, the arrival of missionaries in the Great Plain further influenced the Pawnee. Due to their inability to combat the new diseases introduced to the region, the Pawnee began to doubt their forms of medicine and healing, which shook their traditional beliefs and opened them up to the influences of Christianity. These missionaries brought Western medicine to help combat these diseases and would use them to try converting the populace to their beliefs…

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